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Re: YouTube Music, a new music streaming service, is coming soon

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Post by phito »

icebraining wrote: post #109
weavie wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It knows which device is currently playing. Anything you do sends it to the currently playing device. You can pull up a list of all connected devices and select which one you want to be playing. It then starts on the new device from where the old one left off. It works really well. I have my raspberry pi plugged into my amplifier, and play through that. I control it with my phone or laptop, whichever is nearer.

I think the question is about the media keys. What happens if your phone is playing something on Spotify, and your laptop is playing something on VLC, but also has Spotify open? Does pressing the skip media key make both players skip, or just one of them?

I think the media key interuption dispatching is handled by the OS and not the apps

Re: YouTube Music, a new music streaming service, is coming soon

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Post by 18973424 »

tokyodude wrote: post #61

YouTube is the only service I've used that gets WORSE if you pay. Without paying I can watch one video on my TV while browsing other videos on my laptop to queue up. With paying as soon as look up a video on my laptop I get an error on the tv "only one device allowed"

YouTube Red is the stupidest thing ever. It advertises as "youtube without ads", but the majority of ad content is embedded into the videos by the creators in the form of often undisclosed product placement.

Re: YouTube Music, a new music streaming service, is coming soon

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Post by heavymark »

Their music apps were already confusing and now more so. On iOS you had YouTube for videos and YT Music for Music (that also shows videos) for 10 a month. So now you can also pay 10 a month to get YT Red but without any videos? Why not just have an option in settings to hide videos in YT Music. Since then you could watch them when battery life. I personally love YT Music/Red or whatever they are calling it but the branding of the services seems all over the map.

Re: YouTube Music, a new music streaming service, is coming soon

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Post by dingaling »

notatoad wrote: post #97
balls187 wrote: post #27

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It's in the article. Starting Tuesday, we're rolling out the new YouTube Music experience in the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, Mexico and South Korea*. It will expand more broadly in the coming weeks. We’ll also soon be launching in Austria, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.

the youtube red announcement also said it was coming to canada "soon". given that they rebranded the whole service quicker than they could manage to expand to Canada, i don't have too much hope for youtube's definition of soon.

A few weeks ago I had a pre-roll ad for YouTube Red. Being in the UK I assumed this meant it was finally launching here but when I followed-up it was still the original set of countries.

I don't understand the roadblock. They already have license to show the videos, just give me them without ads!

Re: YouTube Music, a new music streaming service, is coming soon

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Post by mcintyre1994 »

Already__Taken wrote: post #93
dexen wrote: post #77

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They are following in the footsteps of the movie industry, which also provides worse experience to the paying customer. Pay for movie theater ticket, get served 30+ minutes of ads. (edit) Pay for DVD, get unskippable "antipiracy ads". Torrent the movie, and you'll be watching the movie in under 3 minutes of download.

They keep trying to make it more like TV. Seemingly oblivious to the generation using it exclusively because it's not TV.

I guess giant TV advertising budgets are sticky and they're trying to figure out how to shift them to YouTube?

Re: YouTube Music, a new music streaming service, is coming soon

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Post by SllX »

Applejinx wrote: post #120
SllX wrote: post #110

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Obviously this is an opportunity for Google to get into the business of making more payment apps. They're way behind the curve on that compared to their music and chat services, only having two at this point (Google Pay and Tez). There is an obvious hole right there that I'm sure they could fill with a blockchain or anonymous gift cards. Or both! They could be the leading service provider for using the blockchain to…

can't tell if sarcasm o_O

There are always holes in the market and Google is always writing Apps to fill those holes. This is an effort to achieve maximum market penetration and their go to strategy these past few years has been to try a more diverse approach so that they can fill all the holes with their own Apps and Services.

Why do you think I'm being sarcastic?

Re: YouTube Music, a new music streaming service, is coming soon

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Post by IshKebab »

18973424 wrote: post #122
tokyodude wrote: post #61

YouTube is the only service I've used that gets WORSE if you pay. Without paying I can watch one video on my TV while browsing other videos on my laptop to queue up. With paying as soon as look up a video on my laptop I get an error on the tv "only one device allowed"

YouTube Red is the stupidest thing ever. It advertises as "youtube without ads", but the majority of ad content is embedded into the videos by the creators in the form of often undisclosed product placement.

Good point. I wonder if Google will start banning that to make YouTube Red/Premium more attractive.

Re: YouTube Music, a new music streaming service, is coming soon

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Post by SllX »

ikeboy wrote: post #117
SllX wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Obviously this is an opportunity for Google to get into the business of making more payment apps. They're way behind the curve on that compared to their music and chat services, only having two at this point (Google Pay and Tez). There is an obvious hole right there that I'm sure they could fill with a blockchain or anonymous gift cards. Or both! They could be the leading service provider for using the blockchain to…

In their defense they did release 2 previous payments apps (wallet and android pay), but rolled them into google pay

Ah, that would be Google Pay and Google Pay Send.

Re: YouTube Music, a new music streaming service, is coming soon

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Post by lmedinas »

SllX wrote: post #62
ikeboy wrote: post #43

>If you are a subscriber to Google Play Music, good news, you get a YouTube Music Premium membership as part of your subscription each month. Calling it now, within 5 years there are at least 5 different Google services for streaming music (up from 3 now, Play Music/Youtube/Youtube Music) at least 2 of which are also somehow messaging apps. It's even plausible, one for VR music videos, one for streaming in your self…

Well we're at 4 or 4.5 now. 1. YouTube 1.5 YT Music (basically a music-oriented front-end to YouTube) 2. Google Play Music All-Access 3. YouTube Music Premium (from the article) 4. (or 3.5) VEVO I particularly enjoyed this quote: > The days of jumping back and forth between multiple music apps and YouTube are over. As the above list shows, this is demonstrably false. Given that YouTube Red (or YouTube Premium as they…

Google does it with other products as well.

See for example the Instant messaging apps they have done: 0) Google Wave 1) Google Talk 2) Hangouts 3) Google Duo and Google Allo 4) Android Messaging 5) other ?

and of course of course the Task mess good has implemented in Google Assistant, Google Tasks, Google Calendar and Google Keep.

Seriously Google needs to plan better their brands and services.

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